Stephanie Michelle Photography Reviews
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Lesya Sent on 08/31/2024Gave us everything we wanted and more!
We booked Stephanie last year at the start of our Wedding Planning sessions. Photos were the biggest concern for my wife and I, and we were not disappointed.
We always feel a little nervous getting our pictures taken, and Stephanie was incredibly flexible and reassuring throughout our Engagement shoot. She had her own ideas, but was open to suggestions and ideas, and was great at capturing our best angles. We were thrilled with our first session and no longer had any trepidation moving into our Wedding proper.
Our Wedding itself got hit by an unfortunate heat wave, which required us to make a lot of changes last minute. Stephanie was able to make it work, and helped us select a lot of indoor locations to shoot in on our venue's property. Her photos of the bridesmaids, groomsman, and selected family were wonderful, and will be cherished forever.
She made the best of the location and got some gorgeous shots of the sunset, as well as absolutely wild photos of the reception. She went above and beyond and stayed an extra few minutes to finish shooting for an especially fun song that was playing as she was about to leave.
Her turnaround time was also great, we had our wedding photos within 6 weeks or so of the Ceremony. Like before she shot and turned over so many photos, we've appreciated having so many options to choose from.
We would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone that's looking to book a photographer for anything, and would gladly book her again. -
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Taylor Sent on 09/03/2025She's the Best
Stephanie was the best! Kind, responsive, easy to work with and her pictures turned out amazing! -
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Hayden Sent on 12/25/2023Loved our photos!
Stephanie photographed our engagement session and October wedding. We absolutely love every photo that Stephanie took! She listened to our wish list and paid attention to the images we wanted to capture for our special day. Stephanie was easy to work with, offered suggestions for our vision and timeline, helped corral our families for group shots, and was generally fun to be around! We would absolutely recommend Stephanie and hope to work with her in the future for family portraits! -
Melissa Sent on 12/19/2023
I’m so happy we chose Stephanie
Stephanie was wonderful, not only did our photos turn out beautifully, but she was a huge help with day of coordination and flow of events. She’s super responsive, engaging, and makes everyone feel at ease. I have so many amazing pictures I can’t choose which to print and frame! Huge thank you to her for helping make our day special and capturing so
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Julia Sent on 12/07/2023Our Favorite Photographer!
We were lucky enough to have Stephanie take our engagement photos, and they turned out absolutely stunning!
As a couple, we don’t have much experience with photoshoots, but Stephanie guided us through the whole process. She was an expert in posing, making us feel very comfortable in front of the camera. She was also very open to recreating specific poses we were interested in. I tend to feel insecure, but Stephanie made me feel beautiful throughout the whole session, and it showed in our photos.
Overall, we are in love with our photos and will be coming back to Stephanie Michelle Photography for future life-events. She is a wonderful human to work with and we highly recommend her services! -
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Michelle Sent on 12/01/202310/10 Highly recommend Stephanie as your Wedding Photographer!
We'd give 10 stars to Stephanie if we could, she made our wedding experience absolutely perfect before, during, and after our wedding day! We hired her about a year in advance, and from the very beginning she was specific with her expectations, listened carefully to every word we said, and really got to know us as more than just her client. She can command a room easily and professionally, which is exactly what we were looking for. Our venue recommended Stephanie to us and she's worked there before, so we were able to look at exact photos of her work at our venue which was super helpful. She has also done Catholic church weddings, which was a requirement for us, and she knew all the details and specifics to capture every special moment during the ceremony.
As part of her contract, she offered an engagement photo shoot for us, and she traveled from Leesburg to our town Manassas to take photos after work one day. It was a cold, Nov. day, we were absolutely freezing, and the sun went down halfway through our 1-hr long session. HOWEVER, she was still able to capture amazing photos even with minimal light, and she even stayed a little after the hour mark to make sure she could get the photos in the dark. And the photos turned out amazing! We can't tell which photos were taken before the sun went down and which were taken after!
In preparing for our day, she had a couple detailed meetings with us to make sure she captured every photo moment we wanted on our wedding day within the contract time frame - that extra communication was exactly what we needed to keep ourselves calm right before the wedding day. We used her 10-hour package but ended up hiring her for an additional hour to make sure we got some getting-ready photos, and we're so glad we did! She arrived early and prepared, and she jumped right into taking photos immediately. She was friendly with all of our vendors, who even started calling themselves the A-team since they've all worked together before our wedding!
The day of our wedding was perfect! She captured every single candid moment that we wanted to remember forever, and we never felt like she was in the way during the entire day. We had a short amount of time to get church photos after the ceremony, and we had a church coordinator who even turned the lights off on us trying to get us to leave, but Stephanie was professional and efficient the entire time and made sure to get every photo. At our venue, she captured every detail! And she even snuck in some golden hour photos which we were on the fence about getting, depending on time. All of our guests love the dancing photos and never felt like she was in the way. And at the end of the night, when we had our private dance after the send-off, she even stayed a little after the venue was supposed to close down to make sure she got every angle during our dance. We cannot recommend Stephanie for wedding photography enough, if you are on the fence about who to choose or where to start in your search, please start here! Thank you for everything Stephanie! -
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Angela Sent on 12/31/2022Wonderful Photographer!
Stephanie was a wonderful photographer!! We knew after our engagement photoshoot we had made the right choice. She is friendly, easy to work with, and knew what to do for us to have the best photos possible. She worked well with the kids in our families during the wedding and everyone who has seen our photos loved them! Would 100% recommend choosing Stephanie as your wedding photographer. -
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Emma Sent on 12/30/2022Best. Photographer. Ever.
Stephanie was the greatest photographer we could have asked for. She is personable, professional, and the quality of her work is unmatched. I would hire her again and again. Her style is unique in that she avoids the typical yellow toned photos that are very popular right now which makes her work timeless. She never failed to answer even my dumbest question. She was receptive to my requests for certain poses and did her best to deliver as many as we had time for. She was always responsive and a pleasure to be around. My deciding factor in hiring her was that talking to her during our interview felt like talking to a friend. She was so easy to be around, it made posing for photos very comfortable. My only regret is that I didn’t have MORE time for her to photograph our wedding.
Stephanie also photographed my best friends wedding and she did amazing for them as well!
You absolutely will not regret working with Stephanie, I cannot recommend her highly enough! -
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Andrea Sent on 06/21/2022AMAZING- highly recommend!!!
We cannot thank Stephanie enough for her time, talent & thoughtfulness. Our engagement photos were perfect and received quickly. And on the day of our wedding she was SO helpful all day and the portrait process felt so easy and seamless. She's very detail oriented and trustworthy! We highly recommend her and look forward to hiring her again for all of our future special events.Stephanie Michelle Photography's reply:
Awe! Thank you Andrea for such kind words! You and Nick were amazing and I can't wait for you to see your photos! =) -
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Lindsay Sent on 05/27/2022Absolutely Amazing!
Stephanie did a wonderful job with our wedding photos. She captured the day beautifully. She was able to bring out all of our personalities and it made for amazing photos! I am so happy with the final results! I would definitely recommend her services! -
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Abby Sent on 12/16/2021Wedding Photographer
Stephanie is the best!!! She is such a professional in what she does and her work speaks for herself. She was our photographer for our wedding this October and was able to execute our vision while going above and beyond. I've never met as great as a photographer as her who knew just exactly what poses and aspects to snap.
We highly recommend Stephanie and will definitely be using her in the future! -
Christine Sent on 09/23/2020
Perfect score!
Stephanie made the experience fun and personal! From the engagement shoot to the wedding photos, we were so relaxed and able to let go and enjoy every moment! We never had to worry about what our photos would look like! We knew each one would be beautiful and a great representation of how everyone was feeling! I even booked Stephanie separately after our wedding for a boudoir photo shoot for my husband‘s 30th birthday! I’m so sad that she’s so far away now, but our loss is your gain! You’ll never regret your decision to book her for any type of photo shoot! She’s THAT great and versatile! -
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Sonya Sent on 09/02/2020
All the photos
Stephanie has shot all of our family photos, our daughter's senior pictures, and hopefully when the time comes her wedding! She treats all customers as if there is no one else! She puts you at ease anytime she is working with you! I have seen her progress through the years and she just gets more amazing -
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Linda Sent on 09/02/2020The best photographer!
Stephanie is an amazing photographer! She took creative pictures that show how special our wedding day was. We also had her do a photography session for my daughter and her new husband on the beach. Absolutely gorgeous pictures that will give us a lifetime of memories! Thank you Stephanie! -
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Caitlyn Sent on 09/02/2020
Outstanding service
There are not enough words to describe the amazing service we had at our small intimate wedding. Stephanie was amazing. She made me feel and look beautiful, and she’s amazing with kids. I would highly recommend her for any special occasion -
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